The poor quality of BSG is totally obvious to all but the most nostalgic who enjoyed it only because of their age. It is like "Goonies" in this regard.
The characters were cardboard and plots formulaic and derivative. I was eleven, the perfect age for this series, when it premiered and even then its crappiness was apparent. I'll never forget how they re-used the same Dykstra-created footage from the pilot over and over again. "Let's fly down to the ice planet!" followed by yet another insert of the ships flying down to the DESERT planet from the pilot.
Remaking this is ludicrous and demonstrates the total lack of imagination of the Sci Fi channel.
Whedon was asked recently what movie he would like to have written and he replied "Revenge of the Jedi." (the original title before George decided revenge wasn't something jedi would do)
How cool would that have been? No Ewoks, no warmed over Death Star plot, harder core attitude, fresh ideas. Wow.
This is just one of the many outward metrics of the US culture's current decadent state: we deride or fear intellectualism, curiosity (about anything other than sex and drugs), and right action. We exalt immediate gratification, hyper cunsumption, and superficiality.
See DemocracyinAmerica for its prophetic passages imagining the inevitable triumph of mediocrity allowed by democratic capitalism's short term thinking. You can make more money and gain more political power by playing to the lowest common denominator than you can by trying to raise it.
Well, if this company is real, I assume THEY have thought about maintenance. Right?
As for the rest of your post, didn't you watch the Bush-Gore election? You seem to forget our country is divided into red and blue areas. The blue areas (democratic, urban) mostly get high speed internet. The red areas (rural, republican) mostly don't, via DSL, Cable, or ground based wireless.
Because the roundtrip to the high, geosychronous satellites currently used for internet is 40,000 miles. Not insignificant, even for light.
What we need is FASTER LIGHT!!
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that it took to film the largest group-nosebleed scene in the history of cinema.
...imagine Comedy Central without the Daily Show: all Mannequin 2, all the time. A pageant of mediocrity and under-achievement.
They show cheap, mostly bad sequel films out of some library of second rate productions I assume they have some kind of generic access to...like Turner Classic Movies showing the films they already own.
Now they have canned the origial Star Trek (the only reason I watched Sci Fi) even though they have exclusive broadcast rights for the next several years.
Bloom, by will McCarthy envisions a more Bill Joy-style outcome.
Basically, years before the novel begins, a nanobot that turn organic material into more of itself using only radiant heat for fuel gets loose and "blooms" until the entire earth is consumed by it. Mankind retreats to the outer solar system where it can defend wih cold the now highly develped "Technogenic Life Forms" that inhabit the inner region.
It's a pretty fun and exciting book that I highly recommend. It's also a good companion to Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science," as it sees the potential for nanobots to evolve in the way of cellular automata.
at certain crucial things. For example, scrolling long lists of files in Finder windows are lightning fast under OS9 on my G4 PowoerBook, but are almost unuseably slow under OSX on the same hardware. It drives me insane.
...those charts Apple put out projecting PowerPC "risc" performance increaes into the future compared to Intel "cisc" performance? They are hilarious now, kind of like the book "Dow 25,000." I wonder if anyone has a copy? I totally bought the claim back then that the PPC would eventually cream the crappy but backwardly compatible Intel architecture, but not only has Intel kept up it has exceeded the PPC.
Regardless of your feelings about this particular case, does it seem to you like people, especially in America, are less ethical than they have been in previous generations or is that just "greatest generation" nostalgia?
I'm pretty sure there is a lot more cheating now than there used to be even twenty years ago, leading to business practices like those seen at Tyco and Enron.
These are audio/video, but you don't really need the video.
A lot of fascinating discussions of probability and statistics including many colorful topics like meteor strikes, magic, and gambling.
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Please stop sending up those #$*!@$ ant farms!
get a long term exclusive license to the original Star Trek series and then stop airing it.
The poor quality of BSG is totally obvious to all but the most nostalgic who enjoyed it only because of their age. It is like "Goonies" in this regard. The characters were cardboard and plots formulaic and derivative. I was eleven, the perfect age for this series, when it premiered and even then its crappiness was apparent. I'll never forget how they re-used the same Dykstra-created footage from the pilot over and over again. "Let's fly down to the ice planet!" followed by yet another insert of the ships flying down to the DESERT planet from the pilot. Remaking this is ludicrous and demonstrates the total lack of imagination of the Sci Fi channel.
Whedon was asked recently what movie he would like to have written and he replied "Revenge of the Jedi." (the original title before George decided revenge wasn't something jedi would do)
How cool would that have been? No Ewoks, no warmed over Death Star plot, harder core attitude, fresh ideas. Wow.
Let's do it!
like ant farms, made of water!!
children's letters to God, made of water!!
How about more seasons? How about a collection of Treehouse of Horrors? Troy McClure episodes?
To replace the one damaged in the crash.
Apparently the writers of The Simpsons are designing the experimental payloads.
If Bush announces it, anyway.
Q.E.D. Thank you.
This is just one of the many outward metrics of the US culture's current decadent state: we deride or fear intellectualism, curiosity (about anything other than sex and drugs), and right action. We exalt immediate gratification, hyper cunsumption, and superficiality.
See Democracy in America for its prophetic passages imagining the inevitable triumph of mediocrity allowed by democratic capitalism's short term thinking. You can make more money and gain more political power by playing to the lowest common denominator than you can by trying to raise it.
This is the department of homeland seurity. You are under arrest!
Sure you just want to "see how stuff gets made." So you can blow it all up, right?
Well, if this company is real, I assume THEY have thought about maintenance. Right? As for the rest of your post, didn't you watch the Bush-Gore election? You seem to forget our country is divided into red and blue areas. The blue areas (democratic, urban) mostly get high speed internet. The red areas (rural, republican) mostly don't, via DSL, Cable, or ground based wireless.
Because the roundtrip to the high, geosychronous satellites currently used for internet is 40,000 miles. Not insignificant, even for light. What we need is FASTER LIGHT!!
that it took to film the largest group-nosebleed scene in the history of cinema.
...imagine Comedy Central without the Daily Show: all Mannequin 2, all the time. A pageant of mediocrity and under-achievement.
They show cheap, mostly bad sequel films out of some library of second rate productions I assume they have some kind of generic access to...like Turner Classic Movies showing the films they already own.
Now they have canned the origial Star Trek (the only reason I watched Sci Fi) even though they have exclusive broadcast rights for the next several years.
Basically they suck.
Bloom, by will McCarthy envisions a more Bill Joy-style outcome.
Basically, years before the novel begins, a nanobot that turn organic material into more of itself using only radiant heat for fuel gets loose and "blooms" until the entire earth is consumed by it. Mankind retreats to the outer solar system where it can defend wih cold the now highly develped "Technogenic Life Forms" that inhabit the inner region.
It's a pretty fun and exciting book that I highly recommend. It's also a good companion to Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science," as it sees the potential for nanobots to evolve in the way of cellular automata.
at certain crucial things. For example, scrolling long lists of files in Finder windows are lightning fast under OS9 on my G4 PowoerBook, but are almost unuseably slow under OSX on the same hardware. It drives me insane.
"If you racially profile your suspects, then the Timothy McVeighs slip through."
This popular cliche is even more simplistic than racial profiling.
If you are trying to find Ku Klux Klan members you don't waste a lot of time interviewing non-caucasians.
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...those charts Apple put out projecting PowerPC "risc" performance increaes into the future compared to Intel "cisc" performance? They are hilarious now, kind of like the book "Dow 25,000." I wonder if anyone has a copy? I totally bought the claim back then that the PPC would eventually cream the crappy but backwardly compatible Intel architecture, but not only has Intel kept up it has exceeded the PPC.
Regardless of your feelings about this particular case, does it seem to you like people, especially in America, are less ethical than they have been in previous generations or is that just "greatest generation" nostalgia? I'm pretty sure there is a lot more cheating now than there used to be even twenty years ago, leading to business practices like those seen at Tyco and Enron.
These are audio/video, but you don't really need the video. A lot of fascinating discussions of probability and statistics including many colorful topics like meteor strikes, magic, and gambling.
Those who are easily amused don't critisize.
what's the half life?